> On Mar 19, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > > That doesn't help with getting the window controller's -windowDidLoad method > called. In fact, that setting almost never helps with anything and, in my > opinion, should generally be off. Turning it on just takes control away from > the window controller.
Doesn't everything in a nib file take control away from the file's owner? That's the point of a nib file. It's true that you can do programmatically most or all of what a nib file does using its checkboxes, but why would you want to punish yourself like that? -- unless, of course, you need unusually fine control over details that the nib file doesn't handle. I believe you're mistaken when you say that the "Visible at Launch" setting doesn't result in a call to -windowDidLoad. I'm using it now in a rewrite of my UI Browser product, and it triggers -windowDidLoad exactly as I expected. I don't see anything in my code that would trigger it. When I turn off the nib setting the window does not appear at all, let alone call -windowDidLoad. I've been following the "Visible at Launch" story since at least 2002, and I don't recall ever hearing a suggestion that it doesn't trigger -windowDidLoad. As far as I'm aware, the only thing that distinguishes the Visible at Launch setting from all of the other Interface Builder settings is that it got a bit of a bad name way back at the beginning because people misunderstood its (admittedly misleading) wording. It does not make a window visible when the application launches, except by coincidence if you happen to load the nib file then. That led a lot of early users to believe that the setting was broken. Its real meaning was eventually explained in an Interface Builder or Xcode tooltip on the setting, maybe 6 or 7 years ago. (In trying to read the tooltip now, in Xcode 6.2, I see that there is no tooltip for this setting, although there is a tooltip for all the settings above and below it. Now that is really wierd!) -- Bill Cheeseman - b...@cheeseman.name _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
